Month: February 2020

The Kwikset® brand of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. – Hardware & Home Improvement Division, adds to its family of Wi-Fi enabled smart locks with its latest addition, Halo™ Touch Wi-Fi smart lock. Using the latest technology to create a convenient and secure smart home experience, Halo Touch smart lock provides homeowners access to their home via fingerprint. Halo Touch smart lock comes with the ability to program and store up to 100 fingerprints(50 users), ensuring all family and household members can access the home with one-touch fingerprint locking and unlocking. In addition, through the Kwikset app, homeowners can remotely monitor and control their Halo Touch smart locks from anywhere in the world while connected to the Internet. Like its predecessor, Halo, the brand’s first foray into Wi-Fi enabled smart locks, will connect directly to homeowners’ existing Wi-Fi network and smartphone to create a simple, secure smart home, without the need for a third-party hub, panel or subscription service. “Building upon the technological advances with the original Halo Wi-Fi-enabled smart locks, Kwikset once again is at the forefront of security technology with Halo Touch,” said Ali Atash, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Kwikset, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. – Hardware & Home Improvement Division, “With the introduction of Halo Touch, Kwikset continues to reinforce our commitment to creating residential security solutions for our customers.”  

Allied Vision releases first Alvium 1800 U camera models incorporating Sony’s popular high-performance image sensors With the Alvium 1800 U-040 and the Alvium 1800 U-158, Allied Vision released the first camera models within the Alvium camera series that are equipped with Sony’s high-performance CMOS sensors with Pregius global shutter technology. The Alvium 1800 U-040 incorporates the 0.4 Megapixel IMX287 sensor and the Alvium 1800 U-158 is equipped with the 1.58 megapixel IMX273 sensor. Cross-over machine vision camera Allied Vision’s Alvium 1800 series is a cross-over machine vision camera combining the performance and durability of industrial machine vision and the compact hardware and cost effectiveness of embedded devices. Now available with Sony IMX CMOS sensors, these cameras provide high frame rates, high sensitivity, and excellent picture quality. Offering industrial-grade hardware, an USB3 Vision compliant interface with screw-locked connectors, on-board image correction functionalities, and high-precision triggering they fulfill all machine vision requirements. The cameras are also built on Allied Vision’s Alvium platform optimized for embedded vision systems. That means they come in an ultra-compact, lightweight package and are available as a single board module or open housing variant for easy integration into small systems. Their cost-optimized platform design delivers unprecedented value for money. Thus, the cameras are the ideal choice for machine vision applications requiring a small and lightweight camera delivering high image quality and frame rates at an affordable cost.